Cambodia Factory Staff Lament Conditions

The garment industry has transformed Cambodia’s economy, but factory working conditions remain poor. WSJ reporter Kate O’Keeffe speaks with an employee to see what it’s like.

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I ... it's six am in the number ten ... people cuz it's also the site heavily guarded complexes in Cambodia's capital city ... in a few minutes though referred to wear it as one of these factories to make clothes and shoes for the world's biggest brands ... that garment and footwear industries to transform the economy of this tiny Southeast Asian nation ... accounting for almost all of its exports the activists eight weeks is too low ... and the factories exploit workers ... I ... I ... all ... I ... Cheng said it nearly seventeen hundred workers into it ... the country's garment in chip factories last year ... on ... eighteen ninety six percent of Cambodian factories monitored by the International Labour Organization did not comply with overtime regulations ... and joining a union can be complicated ... I ... on ... the law Street Journal this is Kate O'Keeffe in Phnom Penh